EcoCultureLab was established by a group of scholars, artists, and activists in and around Burlington, Vermont, with a core group at the University of Vermont. Growing out of an initiative called BASTA!, the group organized larger events, such as Feverish World and the 6X Howl, alongside a program of talks, reading groups, and public meetings. The original EcoCultureLab group has continued doing things on an intermittent and attenuated scale, but in the meantime EcoCultureLab has grown to be a network with international affiliates that share the loose vision articulated (with variations) in several places along the way. (Our home page contains the more-or-less current one.)
EcoCultureLab Warsaw established itself in late 2024 as a group devoted to exploring the intersections of ecology, media, aesthetics, and culture. Its first major initiative is EcoFilmLab: Eco-Critical Thinking in Cinema, and it has involved international collaborations as well as local events with filmmakers and conversations.
EcoCultureLab Vancouver has been developing as a project of the J. S. Woodsworth Chair in the Humanities in collaboration with the Simon Fraser University Institute for the Humanities. The Woodsworth Chair, currently held by Adrian Ivakhiv, has been organizing events including a symposium on “Generative AI, Techno-Authoritarianism, and the Future of the Critical Humanities.” A current EcoCultureLab project is the webinar series “Radical Hope in Feverish Times.” For more information on that, see here, or follow the EcoCultureLab Vancouver page.